Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
ISAAC NEWTONTherefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things.
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Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.
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Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
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Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
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The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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Centripetal force is the force by which bodies are drawn from all sides, are impelled, or in any way tend, toward some point as to a center.
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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.
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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
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